Unipower Corp.'s (Coral Springs, FL) Thin-250 and Thin-400 single-output switchers, the MD and MF Series, are now available in low-profile, fan-cooled cases...
American Superconductor Corp. (Westborough, MA) announced that its Integrated Electronics division released its first commercial power-converter product. The company believes that the...
BK Precision Corp. (Placentia, CA) has announced the addition of the Model 1692, a switching dc power supply, to its product line....
Advanced Power and Controls LLC (APC, Santa Ana, CA) announced the availability of the APC3006, a new modular design redundant ac/dc power supply in a PS/2 envelope. This new supply is a hot-swappable, dual-redundant 300W ATX supply. As an added bonus, it offers high output current capability on 5V, 12V and 3V, in addition to […]
Micrel Inc. (San Jose, CA) has developed the MIC4681, a surface-mount dc/dc switching converter. The newest member of Micrel's SO-8 SuperSwitcher family, the MIC4681 uses four external components. It features a 2A pulsed-output current limit that can handle the maximum currents of GSM power supplies. At the same time, the device's fused-copper lead-frame design allows […]
IDEC Corp. (Sunnyvale, CA) announced the addition of a 240W model, the PS5R-G24, to its PS5R Series of switching power supplies. This new unit features a built-in harmonic filter designed to make the device fully compliant with the EN61000-3-2 harmonic directive. Units can be paralleled together for a total output of 1,200W. The output rating […]
Toshiba Battery Co. (Tokyo) has developed a compact UPS small enough to fit inside a typical PC. Called the Smart Nonstop Power Supply System, it was developed in cooperation with Nihon Protector Co. (Hyogo, Japan) and utilizes small, thin nickel-hydrogen batteries in place of the conventional lead-storage batteries and only one, rather than three, voltage […]
Power-One Inc. (Camarillo, CA) has extended its MPU150 ac/dc power series by introducing the single-output MPU150-S261, a 48V power solution with single-wire current share. Designed to meet 1U height constraints, this model provides 3.75A of networking, distributed power and industrial systems. The active PFC of the MPU150-S261 complies with the requirements of European line-harmonics standard […]
Magna-Power Electronics Inc. (Boonton, NJ) introduced the SQ Series, a series of high-density, rack-mounted, dc switching power supplies ranging from 13.3kW to...
Pulizzi Engineering Inc. (Santa Ana, CA) announced the release of the TPC884-I international power-distribution system with cTUVus agency approval and the CE mark. The technology of the TPC884-I provides high-current, full-load capacity of 16A at either 110Vac to 125Vac or 200Vac to 240Vac. The built-in voltage selection switch allows the user to select the operating […]
International Power Sources Inc. (Holliston, MA) announced a line of ac/dc power supplies. These compact converters supply 150W in an industry-standard U-bracket...
Lucent Technologies (Dallas, TX) unveiled the Young Stability Curve at Wescon 2000. The Young Stability Curve is a new graphical design tool that quickly verifies product quality and reduces the time it takes to get a product out of the laboratory and into the marketplace. It works with all products and processes that contain a […]
Power-One Inc. (Camarillo, CA) is releasing the FXC/FXP Series of stand-alone or rack-mounted power systems, which provide ac front-end capability to telecom, data communications and other distributed-power designs. Both the FXC and FXP systems may be paralleled up to 180kW of output power. However, the FXC family is intended for chassis-mounted installations with bolted connections […]
Invensys Energy Systems (Phoenix, AZ) unveiled its new Intergy Mini CP System, a compact, new-generation dc power rack system at Intelec 2000. Developed for the communications sector, the Mini CP System measures less than 3U high, and has a modular design that consolidates high-density rectifiers, controllers and distribution modules into one pluggable sub-rack. With a […]
The new Intergy R5848 single-phase rectifier from Invensys Energy Systems (Phoenix, AZ) was introduced at the recent Intelec 2000 show in Phoenix....